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"The face of the operation is Briatore (referred to exclusively in the film by his colleagues and angry, chanting detractors as "Flavio"), an anthropomorphic radish who spends most of his time at QPR plotting to fire all of the managers."

At press time, Harbaugh had sent Michigan’s athletic department an envelope containing a heavily annotated seating chart, a list of the 63,000 seat views he had found unsatisfactory, and a glowing 70-page report on section 25, row 12, seat 9, which he claimed is “exactly what the great sport of football is all about.”

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Last game with Astro Turf - it was being replace by real grass. People were cutting out small sections of the turf with their keys to keep as souveniers. Less of a rush because of the win but more because of the circumstances.

I am curioius where are you getting these numbers for gate revenue? $42m divided by 80000 seats is $525 per ticket. $60m divided by 140000 seats is $526 per ticket. I don't think ND or UM averaged that much per ticket...

per DB the athletic department still has 230 million in debt from Mich Stadium, Crisler and Yost so it's not like they just paid straight cash for the upgrades to each. I think the story that the rev from the suites would pay off the that debt is still true.

basketball, football and hockey are not included in the next round of $250 million in spending. He specifically mentioned that those three were done first because they are the sports that fund the rest of teams.

The university counts all tickets sold and/or given away in the attendance numbers. This is why you will never see an attendance number less than the stadium capacity when it is clearly obvious that not every one came to the game.

The reason that the numbers vary from game to game is due to the number of press, attendants, visitors, vendors, cheerleaders etc.

Though he doesn't "know" the exact algorithm he is pretty good at predicting what the results are week to week. I would guess if the BCS results came out this week they would be pretty close to what he shows.

But it is one my 2 year old daughters favorite books, and it does help with the UM brainwashing. Because of the book she knows that the Block M is "daddy's M" is pronounced "go blue" and every other m stands for Mommy.